Publications

2022
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Distributed Graph Neural Network Training with Periodic Historical Embedding Synchronization

Zheng Chai, Guangji Bai, Liang Zhao, Yue Cheng

arXiv
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Smart OS Scheduling for Serverless Functions

Yuqi Fu, Li Liu, Haoliang Wang, Yue Cheng, Songqing Chen

SC '22 (Best Student Paper Finalist)    
2021
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Mind the Gap: Broken Promises of CPU Reservations in Containerized Multi-tenant Clouds

Li Liu, Haoliang Wang, An Wang, Mengbai Xiao, Yue Cheng, Songqing Chen

SoCC '21     Project    
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FedAT: A High-Performance and Communication-Efficient Federated Learning System with Asynchronous Tiers

Zheng Chai, Yujing Chen, Ali Anwar, Liang Zhao, Yue Cheng, Huzefa Rangwala

SC '21     arXiv
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FaaSNet: Scalable and Fast Provisioning of Custom Serverless Container Runtimes at Alibaba Cloud Function Compute

Ao Wang, Shuai Chang, Huangshi Tian, Hongqi Wang, Haoran Yang, Huiba Li, Rui Du, Yue Cheng

USENIX ATC '21     talk arXiv Project    
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Community-based Layerwise Distributed Training of Graph Convolutional Networks

Hongyi Li, Junxiang Wang, Yongchao Wang, Yue Cheng, Liang Zhao

OPT '20 (The 13th International (Virtual) OPT Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning)    
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Wukong: A Scalable and Locality-Enhanced Framework for Serverless Parallel Computing

Benjamin Carver, Jingyuan Zhang, Ao Wang, Ali Anwar, Panruo Wu, Yue Cheng

ACM SoCC '20     talk arXiv Project    
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TiFL: A Tier-based Federated Learning System

Zheng Chai, Ahsan Ali, Syed Zawad, Stacey Truex, Ali Anwar, Nathalie Baracaldo, Yi Zhou, Heiko Ludwig, Feng Yan, Yue Cheng

ACM HPDC '20     arXiv
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Tunable Subnetwork Splitting for Model-parallelism of Neural Network Training

Junxiang Wang, Zheng Chai, Yue Cheng, Liang Zhao

ICML WS '20    
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InfiniCache: Exploiting Ephemeral Serverless Functions to Build a Cost-Effective Memory Cache

Ao Wang, Jingyuan Zhang, Xiaolong Ma, Ali Anwar, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitrios Skourtis, Vasily Tarasov, Feng Yan, Yue Cheng

USENIX FAST '20     talk arXiv Project     [Press:   IEEE Spectrum,   Blog article]
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Customizable Scale-Out Key-Value Stores

Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng, Hai Huang, Jingoo Han, Hyogi Sim, Dongyoon Lee, Fred Douglis, Ali R. Butt

Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)    
2019
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In Search of a Fast and Efficient Serverless DAG Engine

Benjamin Carver, Jingyuan Zhang, Ao Wang, Yue Cheng

PDSW '19     arXiv Github
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Bolt: Towards a Scalable Docker Registry

Michael Littley, Ali Anwar, Hannan Fayyaz, Zeshan Fayyaz, Vasily Tarasov, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitrios Skourtis, Mohamed Mohamed, Heiko Ludwig, Yue Cheng, Ali R. Butt

IEEE Cloud '19    
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Towards Taming the Resource and Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning

Zheng Chai, Hannan Fayyaz, Zeshan Fayyaz, Ali Anwar, Yi Zhou, Nathalie Baracaldo, Heiko Ludwig, Yue Cheng

USENIX OpML '19     slides
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vCPU as a Container: Towards Accurate CPU Allocation for VMs

Li Liu, Haoliang Wang, An Wang, Mengbai Xiao, Yue Cheng, Songqing Chen

ACM VEE '19    
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HyperFaaS: A Truly Elastic Serverless Computing Framework

Jingyuan Zhang, Ao Wang, Min Li, Yuan Chen, Yue Cheng

USENIX NSDI '19   (poster)
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MOANA: Modeling and Analyzing I/O Variability in Parallel System Experimental Design

Kirk W. Cameron, Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng, Bo Li, Li Xu, Ananth Uday, Thomas Lux, Yili Hong, Layne T. Watson, Ali R. Butt

Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)    
2018
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BESPOKV: Application Tailored Scale-Out Key-Value Stores

Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng, Hai Huang, Jingoo Han, Hyogi Sim, Dongyoon Lee, Fred Douglis, Ali R. Butt

SC '18     Slides Github
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Improving Docker Registry Design based on Production Workload Analysis

Ali Anwar, Mohamed Mohamed, Vasily Tarasov, Michael Littley, Lukas Rupprecht, Yue Cheng, Nannan Zhao, Dimitrios Skourtis, Amit S. Warke, Heiko Ludwig, Dean Hildebrand, Ali R. Butt

USENIX FAST '18     Github Traces
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Chameleon: An Adaptive Wear Balancer for Flash Clusters

Nannan Zhao, Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng, Mohammed Salman, Daping Li, Jiguang Wan, Changsheng Xie, Xubin He, Feiyi Wang, Ali R. Butt

IEEE IPDPS '18    
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MOANA: Modeling and Analyzing I/O Variability in Parallel System Experimental Design

Kirk W. Cameron, Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng, Bo Li, Li Xu, Ananth Uday, Thomas Lux, Yili Hong, Layne T. Watson, Ali R. Butt

VT CS Technical Report    
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SDN helps Big Data to optimize storage

Ali R. Butt, Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng

Book Chapter, Big Data and Software Defined Networks, editor: Javid Taheri. IET, ISBN 978-1-78561-304-3. 2018    
2017
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Workload-aware Efficient Storage Systems

Yue Cheng, Ph.D. dissertation, 06/22/2017.

2016
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Erasing Belady's Limitations: In Search of Flash Cache Offline Optimality

Yue Cheng, Fred Douglis, Philip Shilane, Michael Trachtman, Grant Wallace, Peter Desnoyers, Kai Li

USENIX ATC '16     audio poster
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MOS: Workload-aware Elasticity for Cloud Object Stores

Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng, Aayush Gupta, Ali R. Butt

ACM HPDC '16    
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Towards Managing Variability in the Cloud

Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng, Ali R. Butt

IEEE VarSys '16    
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Provider versus Tenant Pricing Games for Hybrid Object Stores in the Cloud

Yue Cheng, M. Safdar Iqbal, Aayush Gupta, Ali R. Butt

IEEE Internet Computing (Special issue: May/June 2016 - Cloud Storage)    
2015
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Taming the Cloud Object Storage with MOS

Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng, Aayush Gupta, Ali R. Butt

ACM PDSW '15    
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Pricing Games for Hybrid Object Stores in the Cloud: Provider vs. Tenant

Yue Cheng, M. Safdar Iqbal, Aayush Gupta, Ali R. Butt

USENIX HotCloud '15     talk
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CAST: Tiering Storage for Data Analytics in the Cloud

Yue Cheng, M. Safdar Iqbal, Aayush Gupta, Ali R. Butt

ACM HPDC '15     slides